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Welcome to the

Specht Lab...

The Specht Lab focuses on studies in Plant form and function. We use traditional morphological techniques combined with molecular and evolutionary biology to study the natural diversity of plants and to help better understand the forces creating and sustaining this diversity.


431 Koshland Hall

Department of Plant & Microbial Biology

University of California, Berkeley

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LINK to California Allium Project

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March 2008:

CONGRATULATIONS to

Tanya Renner !!

for receiving an NSF predoc and passing her comprehensive exams/advancing to candidacy on the same day!

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February 2008:

Chelsea Specht received the 2008 Prytanean faculty award from the Prytanean Allumni Association.

(more on the Prytanean faculty award )

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January 2008:

CONGRATULATIONS to Madelaine Bartlett!!

Recipient of a 2008 National Research Foundation / South African Biosystematics Initiative Scholarship for her doctoral research on Plant Developmental Evolution

(more on Mads' research)

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- Look for Nhu's paper on Allium in MPE.

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- Look for Madelaine's paper on epi-luminescence microscopy in Development, Genes & Evolution

(PDF)

- Tanya, with help from Heather and Juliana Cho, got VIGS to work in Zingiber !! Keep an eye out for their upcoming publication.

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October 2007:

- Look for Chodon Sass' publication in PLoS ONE on barcoding in Cycads.

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- Congratulations to Ana Almeida, recipient of a Fulbright fellowship. Ana will be starting her doctoral research on floral developmental evolution in Richterago (Asteracee).

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May 2007:

- Congratulations to Chodon Sass on successfully passing her qualifying exams !!

- Congratulations to Sankar Sridaran for winning an outstanding presentation award at the CNR Honors Symposium.

- Contratulations to Yizhuo Wang for winning an outstanding poster award at the MCB Honors Symposium.

- Congratulations to Hillary Cooper, Sankar, and Yizhuo for completing Honors thesis degrees and graduating from UC Berkeley 2007 WITH HONORS!!

- Congratulations to Laura Lagomarsino, recipient of a 2007 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and a Smithsonian RTP fellowship.

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